Catalina Clouser, Stoned Teen Mom, Arrested For Driving Off With Baby on Top of Car
by Free Britney at .Catalina Clouser, a 19-year-old Phoenix, Ariz., woman, was arrested this weekend for driving away with her baby ... ON TOP OF THE CAR.
Police claim she put her five-week-old baby on top of her car in his car seat and drove off, apparently forgetting he was there, and not even noticing when the seat fell off of the vehicle and landed in an intersection, according to police.
All of a sudden Tanning Mom looks like parent of the year.
Neighbors discovered the baby on the road, still strapped to his safety seat, which was lying on its side. Luckily, the baby was completely unhurt.
Clouser, who allegedly had been smoking marijuana, was arrested and charged with aggravated driving under the influence and child abuse.
"We believe that whatever she was under the influence of was the deciding factor in what did happen to this child and we're extremely happy that for the baby this turned out well and the baby is going to be OK," a police spokesman said.
Clauser, her boyfriend and their friends had been smoking marijuana earlier in the evening at a nearby park, but the boyfriend was arrested on suspicion of aggravated DUI when they went to a store - with the baby in the car - to get beer.
Upset that her BF was arrested, Clauser went to a pal's home to smoke more pot.Clauser left around midnight and apparently put the sleeping baby on the roof of the car and drove off, forgetting he was there, and continued driving.
Leilani Gerlach, a homeowner who lives across from the intersection, notified police after she saw the baby in the car seat on the street.
"We were both rolling our eyes in astonishment that someone could forget their baby," Gerlach said. "The car seat was turned to the side so anyone passing by wouldn't be able to tell there was an actual baby inside. Thank god they stopped."
After police arrived, two people walked up and told them the baby was Clausen's. As the officers talked to the two, who identified themselves as friends of Clausen and her boyfriend, the young mother drove up, police said.
"[She] had gotten into her car, set the baby seat on top of the car and forgot that the child was up there. It does not appear that immediately she realized what happened," the police source said.
"I think that perhaps she got where she was going and realized that she did not have the baby in the car."
"There was damage to the car seat, it was scraped but there was no damage to the child."
The baby is now in custody of Child Protective Services.
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Comments (15 Total)
So they arrested her boyfriend for DUI then handed the keys over to her? Who was impaired herself?
@ Dan Speaking of grammar..... "you would better have been able to communicate your" should be phrased as "you would have been able to better communicate your" Not to mention the lovely run on sentence you have going on there. Before you go tossing yourself around as a grammar aficionado you may wish to check your own first.
Dan..out of the comments posted towards you and all you got out of it was the way she spoke? When her comment wasn't even that bad grammer wise. Somethings really wrong with you if you think 30 is when you should start having kids. My mother had all but two kids before she was 30 and because she got pregnant after age 30 she was more likely to have twins..and she did. I can't understand why you think that. Do you have kids? You'll probably lie about it anyways to help "prove your point."
Take the baby away, and don't give it back until this loser passes a drug free test, every month, for 3 months. Who says, pot makes you stupid?
@arabella011 If your grammar is any indication of your parenting skills, your children are doomed. Perhaps if you had dedicated a little more time to mastering the English language instead of getting knocked up as a kid, you would better have been able to communicate your obvious emptiness inside rather than search for approval and attention by becoming the high school tramp.